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Author Halford, Susan.

Title Negotiating gendered identities at work : place, space and time / Susan Halford and Pauline Leonard
Published Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2006

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Description xii, 193 pages ; 23 cm
Contents Ch. 1. Introduction -- Ch. 2. Situating identities -- Ch. 3. Researching identities -- Ch. 4. Placing identities -- Ch. 5. Spaces of identity -- Ch. 6. Everyday times -- Ch. 7. Lifetimes -- Ch. 8. Negotiating identities in gendered organizations
Summary "Drawing on a heritage of research that demonstrates the thoroughly gendered nature of work organizations, this book explores a key question, which, as yet, remains unanswered. What is the relation between gendered organizations and gendered identities? Rejecting accounts which suggest that identities are simply imposed on powerless bodies, the book traces the active negotiation of identity as we encounter the complex resources of organizational life. The book shows that these resources are embedded in the particular places, spaces and times that constitute work organizations, and, indeed, that it is through the negotiation of identities in these contexts that gendered organizations are made, re-made and - on occasion - challenged. Theoretical arguments from disciplines including sociology, geography, history, and gender studies are worked out through a new in-depth study of doctors and nurses working in the British National Health Service."--BOOK JACKET
Notes Formerly CIP. Uk
Based on an empirical study of identity making by doctors and nurses working in British National Health Service hospitals
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-187) and indexes
Subject Hospitals -- Employees -- Case studies.
Sex role in the work environment -- Case studies.
Gender identity -- Case studies.
Spatial behavior -- Case studies.
Time -- Social aspects -- Case studies.
Identity (Psychology) -- Social aspects -- Case studies.
Gender Identity.
Medical Staff, Hospital -- psychology.
Spatial Behavior.
Workplace -- psychology.
Genre/Form Case Reports.
Case studies.
Author Leonard, Pauline, 1957-
LC no. 2005058982
ISBN 9781403941121 hardback
1403941122 hardback
Other Titles Negotiating gendered identities at work